Re: Schecduling a Job Every 2 weeks

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hector Sanchez wrote:

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> I am working WRKJOBSCDE (Work with Job Schedule Entries).  I am trying
> to schedule a job to run every other Friday.  I see everyway of
> scheduling this (Monthly etc).  But I don't see way to do it every 2
> weeks.  Is there a way?
We use the Advanced Job Scheduler from IBM (costs $$$) in which there is
a *NUMDAYS option meaning you tell it to run every X number of days.
But I don't see the equivalent in the regular job scheduler that you have.

What about this:

1. Create a data area for this job.  Initialize it with the last run
date for the job.

2. Schedule the job to run _every_ Friday.  Then, as the first step in
the job, look at this data area.

3. If the date is 7 days ago, it's only been a week, so do a controlled
end within the job without actually running.

4. If it's been 14 days, then run the job, with the last step being
updating the data area with the new date.

It's a kludge, but it's a way to do it.

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